Melike

On our last weekend in the District, we went to Jazz in the Garden for the last time. Almost every Friday during the summer, I would walk the few blocks up the sculpture garden and stick my feet in the large fountain, read whatever book or magazine article I was working on at the time, maybe get some gelato and wait for my friends to start trickling in. Sometimes it was just a couple people, but other times everyone shows up and they bring their friends who bring their friends and you end up on a red blanket drinking someone’s wine and eating hummus. And that is how I met Melike, a friend of Ben’s. It was a bit bittersweet because she is just so poised and bright and cool, so of course I had to meet her days before I moved across the country, right? Still, she let me take her picture and when I go back to DC, I’ll try to talk her into having coffee with me too.